Crain’s Detroit Business reports on how Google will be evaluating communities that are interested in its offer to build a high-speed broadband network. Beyond community support, the company will be looking at factors like bureacratic red tape and existing infrastructure. The article quotes Jason Schreiber, president of Lansing-based AriaLink, a direct-to-business fiber network provider: “One of the major challenges to hanging fiber is getting on the poles. Working with DTE and Consumers Energy isn’t necessarily a huge hurdle, but a city that owns its own poles has a tremendous advantage.” [Source]

MICATS (Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands) is reporting that two of its protesters have been arrested for locking their necks with bicycle U-locks to pipeline construction trucks being used for the Enbridge Line 6B pipeline expansion. [Source]

In a roundup of the lineup for the Aug. 5, 2014 primary elections, we overstated by one year Ward 5 councilmember Chuck Warpehoski’s length of service as a council representative on the city’s environmental commission. He served in that capacity during his first year on the council. We note the error here and have corrected the original article.